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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-09-11 01:35:55 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-09-11 01:35:55 +0400 |
| commit | 83dc3d43ce06d3466f48046577331d06a40b8344 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c2583b7424c6474b78c2408f73369e953920795 | |
| parent | d8612417b2f78767b96ca434b50d23e5cdfcde07 (diff) | |
| parent | ce29a1f8bd99aac409904b4ca4fd700e67802556 (diff) | |
| download | linux-83dc3d43ce06d3466f48046577331d06a40b8344.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup:
[x86 setup] Work around bug in Xen HVM
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/boot/pm.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/pm.c b/arch/i386/boot/pm.c index 6be9ca811d17..09fb342cc62e 100644 --- a/arch/i386/boot/pm.c +++ b/arch/i386/boot/pm.c @@ -122,7 +122,11 @@ static void setup_gdt(void) /* DS: data, read/write, 4 GB, base 0 */ [GDT_ENTRY_BOOT_DS] = GDT_ENTRY(0xc093, 0, 0xfffff), }; - struct gdt_ptr gdt; + /* Xen HVM incorrectly stores a pointer to the gdt_ptr, instead + of the gdt_ptr contents. Thus, make it static so it will + stay in memory, at least long enough that we switch to the + proper kernel GDT. */ + static struct gdt_ptr gdt; gdt.len = sizeof(boot_gdt)-1; gdt.ptr = (u32)&boot_gdt + (ds() << 4); |